The Field Report: Week 2
It’s back baby! The field report is designed to give you a look into the most popular plays from FanDuel’s Thursday Night games. In order to truly separate your entry from the rest of the field, you need to create a unique roster. In GPP’s especially, playing along with the rest of your opponents will typically not get you anywhere. The rules are much different in H2H’s and 50/50’s, but in tournaments where you need to beat ALL of your opponents (e.g. major qualifiers), you need to take risks and go off-the-radar with a few plays.
The percentages below will give you an idea of how popular each player was in contests which began on Thursday. We must take into account that many players overexpose themselves to the Thursday Night game, so the actual percentages for the players listed below will be on average higher than what is listed here come Sunday afternoon.
In order to get these percentages, I entered two Fanduel $10 Thursday 100-man tournaments and averaged the percentage owned between the two leagues. The players aren’t listed with the ownership percentage, but they are listed in order from most popular to least popular in the tables below. It’s not a perfect formula, but it should give us a good idea of the popularity of players at this point in the week.
Greater Than 15% Usage
| Quarterbacks | Running Backs | Wide Receivers | Tight Ends | Defense |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| x | Marshawn Lynch | Demaryius Thomas | Jimmy Graham | Tampa Bay |
| x | Arian Foster | Jeremy Maclin | x | x |
| x | x | A.J. Green | x | x |
10% to 14.9% Usage
| Quarterbacks | Running Backs | Wide Receivers | Tight Ends | Defense | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jake Locker | Terrence West | Marques Colston | Vernon Davis | Arizona | |
| Andrew Luck | Giovani Bernard | Emmanual Sanders | Zach Ertz | Houston | |
| Drew Brees | Shane Vereen | Cordarrelle Patterson | x | x | |
| x | LeSean McCoy | Julian Edelman | x | x | |
| x | Montee Ball | Jordy Nelson | x | x | |
| x | Adrian Peterson | Michael Floyd | x | x | |
| x | x | Percy Harvin | x | x | |
| x | x | Brandin Cooks | x | x |
5% to 9.9% Usage
| Quarterbacks | Running Backs | Wide Receivers | Tight Ends | Defense |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Peyton Manning | Darren Sproles | Calvin Johnson | Greg Olsen | Washington Redskins |
| Nick Foles | Alfred Morris | Andrew Hawkins | Martellus Bennett | Seattle |
| Andy Dalton | Knowshon Moreno | Kendall Wright | Kyle Rudolph | Green Bay |
| Aaron Rodgers | DeMarco Murray | Allen Hurns | Julius Thomas | Denver |
| Carson Palmer | Matt Forte | Randall Cobb | Delanie Walker | New Orleans |
| x | x | Reggie Wayne | x | x |
| x | x | Kelvin Benjamin | x | x |
| x | x | Andre Johnson | x | x |
| x | x | T.Y. Hilton | x | x |
| x | x | Golden Tate | x | x |
| x | x | Larry Fitzgerald | x | x |